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EARED GREBE. 



(Podiceps auritus.) 



Po. Jusco-nigricanSj sultus albus, capite nigro, crista Jerriigined, 



collo subtus maculis castanets mrio. 

 Dusky-brovrn Grebe, beneath white, with the head black, vent 



rust-colour, neck beneath varied with chesnut spots. 

 Podiceps auritus. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 781. 

 Colymbus auritus. Linn. Syst, Nat. 1. 222. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1.590. fl. Briss. Orn. 6. 50. 

 Le Grebe oreillard. Temm. man. d'Orn. 469. Id. 2 Edit. 726. 

 Eared Dobchick. Edw. Glean, pi. 96. f. 2. 

 Eared Grebe. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 185. Penn. Brit. Zool, 2. 



224. pi. 79. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 499. Lew. Brit. Birds, 5. 



pi. 107. PValc. Syn. 1 . pi. 104. Don. Brit. Birds, 2. pi. 29. 



Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. and Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. 149. 



Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 23. 



This is about a foot in length : its beak and the 

 naked space adjoining are reddish : the irides are deep 

 vermilion : its face, the top of its head, and its occi- 

 pital crest and ruff (which are very short) are deep 

 black : behind and beneath the eyes is a tuft of long 

 slender feathers, the upper ones being of a bright 

 yellow, and the lower ones deep orange-red, gra- 

 dually shaded off; these feathers form an arch, 

 and cover the orifice of the ears : the throat, all 

 the neck, the sides of the breast, and all the upper 

 parts of the plumage, are black slightly glossed: 

 the flanks and thighs are very deep chesnut-red, 

 shaded with dusky : the rest of the under parts are 

 pure white: the legs are ashy-black externally and 



